>>2183447Last year I was out fly fishing on a remote river and stumbled upon something when I was walking through a nasty backwater section. It was the torso of some creature with no limbs attached, submerged at about 6 feet. The sediment on the bottom of the river was very silty so I didn't have much time to look as it was getting harder to see. I couldn't see any hair on it, but my first impression was that it was an animal, either calf or deer that drowned and was now well into the stages of decomposition. Still creepy because the hairless flesh looked human.
Later when I got home, I was talking to my dad about the trip and how the fishing was, and then I remembered what I saw in the water. He and many of his friends were fishing guides when they were young. One of his friends has found two bodies while fishing, one in the very same river I was on. I told him about the torso, and he informed me that there were two missing bodies on the river at that time- one of them being a murder. The more I thought about it, the more I thought maybe it was possible that it could have really been a human torso.
The next day I call the pd and tell them about what I saw, and end up getting in contact with a detective. I made it clear to them that my gut response was that its an animal and they shouldn't get their hopes up. The guy gets me to send a pin of the location and says I don't need to come with them yet. I watch a fair bit of true crime shit, so I know if it's a body I'd immediately become somebody they have to question.
Later that day he gives me a call saying they're heading out, and says they are taking a boat as well as a helicopter for aerial searching. Seemed like overkill lmao.
The next day I get a call and he tells me they pulled out a deers decomposing torso out of the river. Says to call again if I see stuff like that in the river in the future, as bodies are pulled out every year. Moral of the story is that your first impression is often correct.
